Geography 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Permafrost, Coastal Erosion, Transportation Planning
20 Dec 2017
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Inadequate public transportation: high volumes of traffic, scattering of businesses, shops and homes, pedestrian unfriendly streets, zoning that divides neighbourhoods from offices, shops and restaurants, parking lots that push buildings back and farther away from each other. Sprawl in ontario: at the current rate, an additional 260,000 acres (1,070 km2) of rural land will be urbanized by 2031 (an area double the size of the city of toronto, ex. 92% of that land is ontario"s best farmland: golden horseshoe growing by over 115,000 people per year. In 15 years, it will be the third largest urban region in north america behind only new york and los. Angeles: because the golden horseshoe is being very urbanized. Picture: showing the greater golden horseshoe, population growth is taking place, the population growth puts stress and strains on the highways and roads within the horseshoe. Illnesses: time lost, traffic accidents, noise, economic costs of climate change.
